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W. F. HUTOHINSON. POCKET BANK.

Patented Dec. 15, 189 1.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. I-IUTOHINSON, OF PASSAIO, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- THIRDTO ARREN B. I-IUTCHINSON, OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 465,137, dated December15, 1891.

Application filed February 28, 1891. Serial No. 883,253. (No model.)

To all whom, it Tnay concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM F. HUTOHIN- SON, of Passaic, in the countyof Passaic and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and ImprovedPocket-Bank, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

My invention relates to improvements in pocket-banks which are adaptedto receive coin and register the amount received; and the object is toproduce a simple and convenient bank of this character, which when emptymay be closed into a very small compass,which will accurately registerthe amount received, which will remain securely locked until full, andwhich when filled will automatically unlock and open.

To this end my invention consists in an ex.- tensible body having acoin-slot at one end, a suitable cover, and a lock for the cover, whichis released by the pressure of a coin. This construction will behereinafter fully described, and then pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar figures of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the views.

Figure l is a perspective view of the bank when empty. Fig.2 is asideelevation of the bank when full. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of thebank with the cover open. Fig. at is a cross-section on the line 4 4 ofFig. 3, looking in the direction of the arrow. Fig. 5 is an invertedplan view of the bank with the cover open. Fig. 6 is a broken verticalsection with the cover closed, and Fig. 7 is a detail view of the latchand the spring and rod connected therewith.

' The bank 10 is composed of three short tubes 11, 12, and 13, the tube13 being adapted to close or slide into the tube 12 and the tube 12being adapted to slide into the tube 11. The upper end of the tube 13 isclosed and the upward or outward movement of the tubes 12 and 13 islimited by the flanges 14:, which are turned up on the lower or innerends of the tubes and which strike similar flanges on the outer tubeswhen the tubes 12 and 13 are drawn out their full length. A coin-slot 15is produced in one side of the tube 11 at the spring 17 secured to itsupper side. The spring is bent to extend up into the tube 11 and it isarranged so that the angle of the bendwill come opposite the slot 15.The spring will thus serve as a shield to prevent the locklatch frombeing struckby a coin, and when the bank is full the pressure of thespring will throw open the cover. Near one edge of the cover, the edgeopposite the slot 15 when the cover is closed, is a projecting pin 1:5,which has a recess on one side, as best shown in Fig. 3, and the pin isadapted to enter a perforation 19 in the lower of the keeperplates 20when the cover is closed. These keeper-plates 20 are placed neartogether and parallel with each other and they project from the innerwall of the tube 11 on the side opposite the slot 15.

Betweenthe plates 20 is a latch 21, which swings horizontally and whichis pivoted at one end, the opposite end being adapted to swing betweenthe plates 20 and enter the re cess in the pin 18, so as to hold thecover 16 securely locked. The latch 21 is held in engagement with thepin by a spring 22, one end of which is secured to the back side of thelatch and the opposite end of which presses against the tube 11, and issecured to the top of the rod 24, which is held to move lengthwise inthe slideway 23 in the back of the tube. This rod 24: is shorter by thethickness of a coin than the tube 11, and its upper end is bent inwardso as to engage the flange 14 of the tube 12. The latch-spring normallyholds the rod down behind the latch 21, so that the latch cannot beopened; but when the last coin necessary to fill the bank is inlows: Acoin is pushed into the slot 15, and

this coin, being smaller than the diameter of the tube 12, will strikethe bottom of the tube 13 and raise the latter above the tube 11, so

that the first gage-mark will show, and this will indicate that one coinhas been deposited. When the tube 13 has been pushed out its fulllength, its flange will raise the tube 12, and when this is pushed outto its limit the bank will be full. When the last coin is inserted, itraises the rod 24 from behind the latch 21, as described, flattens thespring 17 against the cover 16, and strikes and pushes back the latchfrom the pin 18. The spring 17 then throws open the cover and the coinsmay be poured from the bank.

Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A pocket-bankcomprising a body formed of a series of tubes shutting one within theother, the body havingend closures,a coinslot near one end, andgage-marks on the inner tubes, substantially as described.

2. A pocket-bank comprising an extensible body having a coin-slot and acover at one end, a lock for the cover, and coin-operated releasingmechanism for the lock, substantially as described.

3. A pocket-bank comprisinga series of con nected sliding sections ofdilferent diameters, one section having a coin-slot therein, a permanentclosure for one end section, a springpressed cover for the opposite endsection, a lock for the cover, and coin-operated releasing mechanism forthe lock, substantially as described.

4. In a pocket-bank, the combination, with the bank-body having acoin-slot therein and a latch opposite the slot and the cover having acatch to engage the latch, of a springshield fixed to the cover andprojecting between the latch and coin-slot, substantially as described.

5. In a bank composed of a series of sliding tubular sections, one ofwhich has a cover provided with a catch, the combination, with thespring-pressed latch adapted to engage the cover-catch, of a slidablerod having one end soon red to the cover and the opposite end held toengage an adjacent section of the bank, substantially as described.

WILLIAM F. HUTCHINSON.

.Witnesses;

WARREN B. HUTOHINSON, W. PEROIVAL EDGAR.

